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The shift to the era of the wired consumer

The lines are blurring among four huge industries: computers, consumer electronics, communications and entertainment. The relentless spread of digital electronics-converting information, sound, video, text, and images into a single stream of ones and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Edward O'Hara

January 1, 1997

Internet, the meeting place

This paper describes the authors’ point of view about the importance of Qualitative Research in terms of creating new analysis tools for the understanding of the Internet consumer. The paper also describes the major findings about this issue...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Authors: Carlos Liz, Rui Almeida

January 1, 1997

The next millennium

This paper reviews the impact of new technologies in the research process over the past five years and the incoming new technologies up to the next millennium. The main focus, the effect of speech-to-text Voice Recognition technology - upon the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Sarah Bonner

January 1, 1997

A new generation Of CAPI

Nowadays new equipment, new software with multi-media features and new data-input techniques are available for computer-aided personal interviews (CAPI): pen and voice recording. We call these small and light pen-pads with keyboards the CAPI...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Gerd Meier

Company: GfK

January 1, 1997

Tales from the web

The Internet reminds me of Las Vegas, said one of the developers I interviewed when researching this paper. He was right. Like Las Vegas, the world wide web offers stunning shows of human invention and mind-boggling choices mixed with crass...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Philippe Boutié

January 1, 1997

New possibilities?!

“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.” (Vernor Vinger, 1993 “The Coming Technological Singularity..,”), Impatiently looking...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Rolf Pfleiderer

Company: Burke, Inc.

January 1, 1997

People's views on it

In general, the telecom industry is about to lose its power to individual consumers. Given the intensified competition in the field of telecommunications, it is consumer buying power that increasingly determines the rules of the business. However,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Ulla Nyberg

January 1, 1997

Efficiency and added value

This paper describes the potential effects of the advent of the “network computer” on computing in quantitative market research. These effects may be expected to be beneficial, both for the activities of data collection and data analysis....

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Iain MacKay

January 1, 1997

Online advertising

This paper examines the theoretical and practical principles of on-line advertising via the Internet. It addresses fundamental issues raised by this increasingly consequential, emerging area of business and presents solutions developed by a European...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Hendrik Dohmeyer

January 1, 1997